This 12th episode, hosted by our very own Lim Wei-Ling, features photographer Roger Ballen. The collective exhibition ‘Aesthetics of Silence’ featured his series of photographs ‘Roger the Rat’. Photographed in Johannesburg between 2015 and 2020, Ballen created and documented a part-human, part-rat creature who lives an isolated life outside of the mainstream society. In the series of photos and videos ‘Roger the Rat’ we witness the absurd aspects of human existence and psyche. What relationship does it have with the self-isolation that many of us are currently experiencing? What drives Roger to explore the ‘unknown’? What other exciting project is Ballen working on right now? Learn all about it through this episode.
